security question marshall nice solution. has to be cheaper so much more needs to be john two hundred people have to be a concrete solutions. and. this is due to other news asia coming up on the program. and underpaid chinese office workers pushed back against working twelve hours a day for china the richest man calls working. six days a week a blessing is the time for change plus a dangerous forest files and fumes combined to create the conditions in thailand. and.

in the thick jungle of borneo scientists say in the dog. i'm british. it's good to have you with us. working twelve hours a day through the week is a reality for many in asia i've lived through it myself but in china it's almost the norm mainly in tech companies working dynamic b.m. sixty hours a week is critically referred to as the nine nine six should feel some credited with helping china's tech and startup scene grow in the early two thousand recently though jack ma so i was a richest man and father of one of the world's biggest e-commerce but ali baba called it a huge blessing he said what does should consider it an honor rather than a burden and that's set off

a debate how much is too much and why should workers have to do unpaid overtime here's more on where this debate is going. head to one of china's most renowned tech companies and as one of the country's richest men jack ma is an icon for many but recently in an internal company message he suggested that being able to work from nine am to nine pm six days a week was a huge blessing the comments sparked heated debate among chinese professionals. jody had only on that some companies need their workers to do overtime because overtime is the key to competitive house for the not always here but many young workers in beijing disagree so so are you working nine and six every day makes your overtime longer than twenty or thirty hours it surely harms your body and before maturity and that everyone values work differently it comes down to the individual's choice for young people after many years they may think they had

a unique work opportunity but they may also regret having sold themselves out. working over time is taken for granted in many chinese companies legally though the work week shouldn't be more than forty hours and for many young people that's important. for more i'm joined in the studio now by didn't look at this pond and clear who spent more than a decade reporting in china and you saw the walk that first time to felt welcome now there's been a significant backlash to jack calling the nine thousand six walk a huge blessing and there's even an online blacklist of sorts of companies that push their workers to work overtime why this backlash i think like in many situations that we've seen now it's a lot of his dance millennial to the younger generation that just isn't prepared to behave the way that their parents' generation did and they don't want to spend all their time at work they won't work life balance and also as people get wealthier

they want to have more leisure time so i think all these factors together have combined to see this backlash against. call for more work and there is also a question about the legality of this walk for the benefit of all of us would like to play a sound bite from a lawyer who's talking about the legality of this work. the model according to chinese labor law most employees are subject to standard working time which is no more than eight hours per day and no more than forty hours per week with at least one day off every week. so the nine nine six working time violates the law in terms of both working time every day and every week a little more how that from a doctor going to definitely don't tell me that sounds ideal that's what the law says why is it always violated and i think it's cultural for generations people have just worked hard in china it's a country that prides itself on working hard so i think that's one of the main reasons and

a lot of it is that it's able to happen because we've seen such amazing growth in the chinese economy there's a requirement for people to work longer in many ways because they they need to meet these new targets in terms of dog of china entering a period of slower growth does that mean that it's a given that this walk over time an unpaired over time out that will therefore have to cease to exist is that what's going to happen well ironically i think it could even lead to people working longer hours we've seen richard you know from j.d. dot com where. talk out of eleven sixteen pm on average. he's been calling for people to work harder because they need to make up numbers the economy is slowing and perhaps that's also part of the reason why jack ma made the comments when he did because they're also seen. growth is still very strong and ali baba but the overall economy is slowing and they need people to work longer hours but surely this can't be sustainable if there's been many studies conducted in the united

states primarily would serve but walking into the sustainably for. these long hours has a detrimental impact on productivity in the long run surely they must be aware of that in china i think they are i think there's an increasing awareness particularly again among the millennial as we mentioned earlier. it's not just about work life balance there's also efficiency issues that you know you just don't perform as well so i think that there is a growing awareness among the younger generation maybe jack ma who's always been seen as a pioneer maybe in this case he's representing an older generation that different going on thanks very much for expanding that to us and coming into this radio traffic going to thank you. it's been cold the toxic is four weeks northern thailand has been rated one of the most polluted regions in the wild the wost. have combined but bunning practices to blanket the area in a deadly small. shallow. province where thousands of people

have been left for air and have plunged because of the pollution. it doesn't take long like this to turn into a rampant wildfire. that's something regional pretty trim seminary well this month in northern thailand saw some of the most devastating forest fires in years and the danger is not over yet and this is a new fire the trees are very dry here. massive areas of land bent to ash and the damage doesn't and that. this is what happens when you mix forest fire with heavy pollution it's being called a toxic hate lingering so i cannot schemes creating a dangerous. two weeks chiang rai as recorded some of the one quality in the.

hitting the most vulnerable the hardest i know from what eighty five year old man led jenks from penn has lived here all his life he and his wife say the pollution has never been this bad. i couldn't see clearly it made my eyes water they were really painful i'm afraid to smoke could get even worse and last even longer. pollution related health problems have surged health workers say they're struggling to cope yeah. it's really bad extremely bad i was not prepared for this sometimes even i can't breathe well and have to get medical help no matter what we do it's just not enough. emergency services blame the wildfires on other unusually dry summer. there's a fear here that the fires could become the norm and forty's want to be ready this

fire team doesn't want to be caught off guard again that building dozens of dams like this one across these mountains they stopping the fires from spreading and holding water to put them out people here are now just praying for the rainy season to hit and put an end to this toxic might minute but this year at least. we have two ratios largest island next borneo a place long famed for its lush rain forest and abundant wildlife today however both born us jungle and animal kingdom are under attack mainly by the continued expansion of plantations palm oil is used in many everyday products from shampoos and dozens to cookies and chocolate and it's because of palm oil that these heavy fellows behind me are especially under threat born years orangutan population has

shrunk dramatically in recent years and continues to do so scientists and conservationists are now experimented with a novel way to track and monitor the critically endangered apes. somewhere underneath the thick canopy of borneo is rain forest orangutans i brought him in the jungle foraging for food i'm swinging from tree to tree but every day there's fewer of them the natural habitat is shrinking and becoming more dangerous . these are running times live in a sanctuary as so many others is they are all things and i'm able to survive in the wild it's this. land clearing and poaching are said to have wiped out half of the population since the start of the millennium and conservation groups say it's paramount to accurately monitor their numbers and location but tracking the animals in the wild is like searching for a needle in a haystack. so how do you spot on

a running time in the thick jungle of borneo it's team of scientists says with drawings and imaging cameras. we've been working with the when it's dark so early mornings and early evenings we do that because if it's through the day the temperature of the forest is quite similar to the overtures of the body's own level so you call it tech warm that well during the evening before schools and detection you did it difference becomes larger so detection goes up in the morning it's best because the forest at old it's to cool down its heat and then the animals really stand out and you can detect them very very well. so now it's an experiment but those who were involved in the project say it has the potential to provide more exact information than the traditional method of monitoring iran or

thames until now numbers were estimated by counting the nests they build we've been extremely successful by with the check to things in their. various heights so we've learned a lot. there was results. that technology isn't yet perfect sometimes animals are caught on camera such as pygmy elephants. monkeys but the team says it's working on an algorithm that will help tell the species upon . conservationists type that technology will play a significant touch and painting a more accurate picture of borneo most endangered orangutan population. but it will take much more to stop that decline in the wild. that's sort of on our website. and you can check us out on facebook as well to.

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